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Monday, 18 November 2013

Pray for Tasmania and Canberra

I wanted to alert readers briefly of two events, one (hopefully!) positive, one not happening tomorrow that need your fervent prayers.

First the positive - tomorrow is the installment of Canberra-Goulburn's new Archbishop, so please do keep Archbishop-elect Christopher Prowse in your prayers. And if you can't get to the ceremony, it will be livestreamed (from 10.45am). **You can read an interview with him in The Canberra Times (nothing startling, all very Francis-PC!).Secondly, I've received an alert from a reader that the debate on Tasmania's proposed extremist abortion bill, aka the Tasmanian Reproductive Health (Access to Terminations) bill, is going to be debated in the Tasmanian Legislative Council tomorrow (Tuesday). The bill proposes, amongst many other things, hefty fines and even jail for protesters at abortion clinics, and attempts to force medical professionals to refer patients to pro-abortion doctors and counsellors. You can read more in The Examiner.